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February 2013

February 28, 2013

. . . more spending, more taxing, and more regulation. So does the uber-progressive Houston Chronicle.

In the last eight days, the paper -- in the voice of its editors, cartoonist, and public-affairs columnists -- has urged more spending at least six times, more regulation at least five times, and more taxes at least once.

The paper frosted this three-layed cake with filigrees of criticism and mockery for those who would spend less, tax less, and regulate less: conservatives generally, the Tea Party in particular.

February 25, 2013

[THE] STORY is how Wall Street has become a get-rich-turnstile for Democratic political operatives. The terms of Mr. Lew's original employment contract with Citi included a bonus guarantee if he left the bank for . . .

February 23, 2013

GREAT POLITICAL movies transcend that category and tell us something useful, often depressing, sometimes inspiring, about the human condition. The best of recent years was "The Lives of Others," the brilliant 2006 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film about an East German Stasi agent who spied on artists and intellectuals.

February 22, 2013

Investor in Cayman Islands tax havens? Check. Recipient of a bonus and corporate jet rides underwritten by taxpayers at a bailed-out bank? Check. Executive at a university that accepted student-loan "kickbacks" . . .